Jennifer Hudson suspect should have been in jail the day of murders

Wiliam Balfour, the prime suspect in the murders of actress/singer Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew, should have been in jail the day of the killings. He was stopped by police with crack in his car back in June which was a violation of his parole from a 1999 conviction for attempted murder and vehicular hijacking. He was instead allowed to go free, according to the AP:

On June 19, police pulled over Balfour’s car after hearing gunshots in the area, according to the officers’ report. They found a rock of cocaine in plain view on the driver’s seat, the report stated. It had a street value of about $100.
A parole supervisor declined to issue a warrant to revoke Balfour’s parole after the arrest, records show.
However, a felony arrest usually is sufficient reason for corrections officials to revoke parole, said Thomas Peters, a Chicago criminal defense attorney who represents parolees.

Even better, when a warrant was issued on Saturday for William’s arrest they already had grounds for revoking his parole without even counting his suspected involvement in the murders:

The Illinois Department of Corrections issued a warrant for Balfour on Saturday for violating terms of his parole by possessing a weapon and failing to attend anger management counseling and a substance abuse program, according to his parole report.

While this is all Monday morning quarterbacking about a piss-poor parole system that goes on in every city, it’s still the kind of scary shit that makes you think “Maybe I don’t need groceries today” then hide under your bed eating old Saltines. On that note, NOM NOM NOM. Hey, I found the The Geekologie Writer’s mom. How long have you been under here? Cracker?

i think every state should have a 3-strike law. and then use these useless convicts to take the place of the mexican illegals who come over to do the jobs that are beneath the white man. but for the ones whose 3 strikes are sexual offenses, especially against children, they’ll just be shot on site.

that’s part of the problem, there is no fear in our punishment system. if balfour had had his hand cut off for the first murder conviction, you think he would’ve committed the second, let alone be able to hold the gun? we need a little more medieval behavior when punishing our criminals.

Alex, (#24), the starting salary for Chicago police is $43K and jumps to $55K after one year. Exactly how much should we be paying cops? Once you’re at 10 years, things should be pretty comfortable, especially after The Chosen One gets his hands on the purse strings and taxes my income by another 20% and gives it to cops (which I don’t mind) and parole officers (which I sure as hell do mind).

“It is just four miles from Mrs Donerson’s house to the $1.6 million neo-Georgian home of Barack Obama. The Democratic presidential candidate also lives on the South Side but in the leafy environs of Hyde Park, an island of coffee shops, restaurants and book stores next to the University of Chicago where he once taught.

Head a few streets south of Hyde Park, however, and it soon looks like another world of run-down low-rise homes and pawn shops protected by steel bars, discount stores and fast food outlets. The South Side stretches a further 14 miles, through districts that are 93 per cent black on average, to Altgeld Gardens, the bleak housing estate where Mr Obama cut his teeth as a community activist in the 1980s. ”

Clearly the activities of ‘The One’ made a difference..

Keep voting democratic guys, you can see that it’s helped. Once you head cracks open, and your brains fall out, perhaps then you will wake up to your ignorance.

“It is just four miles from Mrs Donerson’s house to the $1.6 million neo-Georgian home of Barack Obama. The Democratic presidential candidate also lives on the South Side but in the leafy environs of Hyde Park, an island of coffee shops, restaurants and book stores next to the University of Chicago where he once taught.

Head a few streets south of Hyde Park, however, and it soon looks like another world of run-down low-rise homes and pawn shops protected by steel bars, discount stores and fast food outlets. The South Side stretches a further 14 miles, through districts that are 93 per cent black on average, to Altgeld Gardens, the bleak housing estate where Mr Obama cut his teeth as a community activist in the 1980s. ”

Clearly the activities of ‘The One’ made a difference..

Keep voting democratic guys, you can see that it has helped. Once your head cracks open, and your brains fall out, perhaps then you will wake up to your ignorance.

I ask you, since the War on Drugs began by a Republican president 30 years ago, how would you say that war is going??? Republicans have been in office longer than Democrats in the last 30 years, and you want to blame the Dems for the failed system??
As usual, you have your heads up your ass and your hand on your wallet….more of the same.

Deacon, your solution to the problem is to have some old-fashioned skull-cracking. That’s a very enlightened sentiment, but somehow seems a little ill-advised. Violence begets violence, remember?

Leave it up the pile of shit wingnut racists to blame other people for the actions of this guy.They’re always going on and on about personal responsibility until its something they think they can score some points off of,and it’s always the “liberals” faul..

It’s the liberals that constantly cut funding to state police programs, state parole programs, state public defender programs.

It’s liberals that cut funding to education, early education, boys and girls programs, after school programs.

It’s liberals that cut funding to inner-city redevelopment, and liberals that give imminent domain power to the courts so they can kick out the poor instead of helping them build their community.

Darn those liberals! If only they weren’t dropping trillions on a bogus war and hundreds of millions on their rich Wall Street buddies, we might have the resources to better police urban crime. Gosh, I HATE those liberals!!

Lehman Brothers has given $9.2 million through employees and its PAC since 1989, with 54 percent of that going to Democrats. Clinton and Barack Obama top the list of all-time recipients for the company, collecting $410,000 and $395,600 respectively. Schumer hauled in $181,450, while Dodd has collected $165,800. The top recipient of PAC money from Lehman Brothers has been Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, which has jurisdiction over banking and the securities industry. Castle has collected $38,500 from Lehman’s PAC since 1993.

This election cycle, Lehman employees have given about $1.3 million to presidential candidates. Only fellow financial giants Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley have given more to the presidential hopefuls this election cycle. Lehman employees have made their firm one of the top contributors to both Obama ($370,500) and John McCain ($117,500) this election cycle. (For a full list of recipients of Lehman contributions, see this post from Friday.)

So, it’s all part of the right wing conspiracy eh? Liberals are innocent angels right?

Also, I suggest you read the definition of fascist before you continue to name call. The current popular use of the word brings to mind a quote from ‘The Princess Bride’ — “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. ”